By Shannon McFarlin WENK/WTPR News Director
Mansfield, Tenn.—Fifth-generation farmer Grant Norwood of Mansfield is the Southern Region Winner of the 2018 Conservation Legacy Award.
Norwood was named winner along with two others—the winners of the Midwest and Northeast Regions.
Each winner will be recognized at the American Soybean Association Awards banquet on February 28, at the Commodity Classic in Anaheim, Calif. During the banquet, one of the farmers will be chosen as the national winner.
Norwood said Wednesday evening that he and his family will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Anaheim for the awards banquet. Whoever wins the national award will receive the opportunity for an international soybean tour, he said.
“We will also be there representing the Tennessee Soybean Association and Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board,” he said.
Norwood is a fifth generation farmer and grew up learning everything he needed to know about farming from his father, Don Norwood.The family farm was recognized as a Tennessee Century Farm in 2014 and they farm in the Pleasant Hill area of Mansfield.
The Norwoods also were named Conservationist of the Year by the Paris-Henry County Chamber of Commerce a couple years ago.
Norwood noted that the family still owns and farms the original land where the original family cabin still stands.
The Conservation Legacy Award is a national program designed to recognize the outstanding environmental and conservation achievement of soybean farmers, which helps produce more sustainable U.S. soybeans.
